So. After all of the shouting, all of the demonstrating, all of the excruciating sexual tension, how many people attended today’s Tea Parties? According to Nate Silver, who is so good with numbers they’re going to name one after him (five, six, seven, nate, nine…), we’re talking 111, 899. Adds Nate:
Are these figures impressive? I’d say they’re reasonably impressive. Then again, 111,899 isn’t much more than the number who attend a typical University of Michigan football game or who attended a single Barack Obama rally in Portland, Oregon last year.
And remember, Michigan sucked this year. I mean, they lost to fucking Notre Dame fer Touchdown Jesus’ sake…
But anyway…
We could talk about the 306,113,948 Americans who didn’t show up because they were
a) working
b) rinsing out a few things/washing their hair/visiting their mother/having really bad cramps
or
c) sane
….but we should probably deal with the much smaller number who came in search of catharsis and maybe a chance to glimpse John Ratzenberger (Norm! No…wait.. Cliff? Fuck. Well, let’s go get a funnel cake….). It would seem that there was a small problem with message discipline and so we got a heaping helping of neo-nazis, birthers, bitters, gun nuts, racists, secessionists, and those who would point out that proper spelling is not mandated in the Constitution so suck it liebrals!!1!
There also seemed to be a lot of what we call "elderly people" attending, probably taunting the other teabaggers with their Social Security and Medicare benefits as an act of social aggression since they suck at "bum fights". Trust me, I know. One punch and it’s game over man. Lights out. Bitch is down and ain’t getting up.
Lastly there were the children, lots of them it seems of the home-schooled variety who someday will tell the story of how they were at the Great Tax Protests of ’09 when home-school teachermommy teabagged the president. I’m sure their friends, if any of them ever have any, will be impressed….
Is there anyone I didn’t offend with this post? Cool.




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http://tinyurl.com/dzlu3x #2 is perfection.
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Remember the wacked Republican lady with the bandaid on her face? This idiot dangling teabags from her hat looks to be a close relative.
Is there anyone I didn’t offend with this post? Cool.
Muslims. Better luck next time, infidel!
…we got a heaping helping of neo-nazis, birthers, bitters, gun nuts, racists, secessionists, and those who would point out that proper spelling is not mandated in the Constitution so suck it liebrals!!1!
You left out rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists. Although those may have been implied.
What did you expect? “Welcome, sonny”? “Make yourself at home”? “Marry my daughter?” You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know…morons.
Yeah. Retarded fucking fucks.
that was my thought as well. after living five years in Texas it is easy to imagine they are related – it’s not as if there are life guards in these ever shrinking gene pools.
Mr Tbogg, fabulous – - came here needing a lift much like a kid crashing the day after halloween – a much needed boost after yesterday’s sugar high
I love the bipartisanship! Both sides get 30 years worth of material from this event.
I have looked at hundreds and hundreds of pictures from Day One of The Second American Revolution, and I still can’t figure out what these people are on about. Some of them mention taxes, so I’m guessing they are angry about the tax cut they got.
I second Lesley’s endorsement of photo #2 from the TPM link. Maybe I’m just partial to Randians, but it always tickles me to see who considers themselves an ubermensch.
Excellent application of Blazing Saddles quotes. ‘Bout spit my morning tea out all over the screen.
They do seem confused. Maybe someone should help them find their way home. I imagine many of them have been reported missing from their Alzheimer’s facilities.
Oh, and the bunny has a rash.
I don’t like crowds, so I teabagged with TurboTax at home.
Didn’t offend me, because I’m not one of the 111,899 stupidest motherfucking idiots in the history of the world.
Anti-TeaBaggers of the world, unite!
You have nothing to lose but Glenn Reynolds’ caffiene-impregnated pubic lice in your teeth.
The “Don’t Tax Me, Bro!” shirts are moderately funny, but then again, even a deaf, dumb, and blind, and incredibly fuckin stupid squirrel finds a nut sooner or later.
They found some nuts to teabag I guess.
Lesley–
Ahem.
OMFGFG(CBACBSMFS)OMFGFGFG!!eleven!!!!11!1!1!!
I. Love. You.
Down Here In Oz, people in the bush wear hats with corks dangling from the brim in a similar fashion to Maggie McFuckingidiot there because it helps to keep the swarms of flies away.
Apparently it has no effect on swarms of stupid.
Thank you for giving me the image that will explain to the Ozzians (I am a US expat) the sheer idiocy behind this teabag thing, which as a relatively sane people they are having serious difficulty comprehending.
PS–CBACBSMFS means Can’t Believe Anyone Could Be So Motherfucking Stupid. I hope this catches on.
Here’s a third on that photo #2 from the TPM link; that guy’s posed look of serious-fat-white-guy-badassitude topped with a skull-printed do-rag says it all.
I’m sure Ayn Rand would have been all over teabagging that piece of work; I’m not being ironic here, I’m just so sure that Ayn would have wanted to provide the finest of services to her, ah, biggest fan.
I believe that if the tea bag scum answered honestly about what was bothering them about our government, they would respond:
“My head is about to explode because we have ni**ers in the White House!”
I think it is fair to assume that the 111,000 Teabaggers are the same people that have threatened to “Go Galt”. Well, I believe they showed us what that future Randian day will be like, not showing up for work and all. Bridges collapsed, trains collided, capitalism and society reduced to crumbling rubble. Well…maybe not so much, but I did notice that my local Chick-Fil-A was a little understaffed and it took an extra three minutes to fill my order.
Hatmandu–
Sweet jeebus I miss Chick-Fil-A…batshit crazy right-wing religious nutters or no, those people make the best chicken sandwich on earth.
Extra pickles are the key. The original on whole wheat with extra pickles…mmmm…the original on whole wheat with extra picklesAAAAGGGHHHH
A rather large Circle Bag happened outside my office, so did walk around a little. I think that’s accurate description for an overwhelming majority of the BagHags.
Couldn’t resist a little bit of fun, and posed as a Ron Paulite. The cognitive dissonance that would happen when I’d start on the, “yea, and when are we gonna legalize drugs and prostitution, and investigate the inside job of 9/11, and bring back the gold standard??!?!” was quite comical.
“Going Galt” they can get. “Going Alex Jones-y” confuses the hell outta them. Very entertaining.
112,000 attendee’s? Minus 15% kids = approx. 96,000. Minus 10% sane people there to document the crazy = 85,000. Minus 25% Republican pols/lobbyists/operatives = 60,000. Minus 15% with Alzheimer’s who thought they were going to a Liberace concert = 51,000. Minus 5% Fox News promoters and RW celebrity bloggers = 48,500.
Impressive turnout, considering the around-the-clock promotion on Fox News and the RW Wurlitzer for the past 4 weeks.
Thanks Fox for proving just how marginalized the conservative movement is today…you cooked up this big stinker and flushed it.
But Hannity said on the air yesterday that there were 10 million protesters! Who are we to believe?
Bingo! TBD reminded me of the efforts to recall Gov. Barbara Roberts here in Oregon in the early 1990s. The same election included a tax limit (roughly, our version of Prop 13), which provided some fuel, but basically some folks were upset that we’d elected our first girl governor. They were just as upset and incoherent as the folks yesterday, though more genuinely grass-rootsy.
e) 7th day of Yom Tov and had better things to do with their time anyway